“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” — Amy Carmichael You find yourself at the end of energy, your mind and body all give out, but there is this soul who needs you to be strength or kindness or support, and so you push through the tired. Sometimes it is aContinue reading “Giving, Luke 6:38”
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Considering Love
More than mere emotion, not bound by our intellect, but replete with perfect knowledge; more than we can express and just enough to fill us —undiminished and full to abundance; we cannot give away more than we receive, for it is He who first showed us. Song writers claim to capture it in the summer’sContinue reading “Considering Love”
Perfecter
Sometimes I’ve been ungrateful, less than grace-full; I’ve sat in selfishness, stirred discontentment, and I often find I’m stuck by my own indignation. Sometimes I’m ruled by fear of what the world can do to me; I can be petty, jealous, and childish. I’ve tasted bitterness, held it on my tongue, rolled it round, andContinue reading “Perfecter”
What Abides
“And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.” —1 John 4:16, NKJV Cleaning the messes — a willingness to sweep up crumbs, carry out trash, wash dishes, fold clothes; it is a desire toContinue reading “What Abides”
Poetic Meanderings 